Smith's Bible Dictionary

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JETHRO

(his excellence) was priest or prince of Midian. Moses married his daughter Zipporah. (B.C. 1530.) On account if his local knowledge he was entreated to remain with the Israelit...

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JETUR

(an enclosure). (Genesis 25:15; 1 Chronicles 1:31; 5:19) [ITURAEA]

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JEUEL

a chief man of Judah, one of the Bene-Zerah. (1 Chronicles 9:6) comp. 1Chr 9:2 [JEIEL]

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JEUSH

(assembler).Son of Esau by Aholiabamah the daughter of Anah, the son of Zebeon the Hivite. (Genesis 36:6,14,18; 1 Chronicles 1:35) (B.C. after 1797.)A Benjamite, son of Bilhah. ...

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JEUZ

(counsellor), head of a Benjamite house. (1 Chronicles 8:10)

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JEW

(a man of Judea). This name was properly applied to a member of the kingdom of Judah after the separation of the ten tribes. The term first makes its appearance just before the ...

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JEWEL

[STONES, PRECIOUS, PRECIOUS]

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JEWESS

a woman of Hebrew birth, without distinction of tribe. (Acts 16:1; 24:24)

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JEWISH

of or belonging to Jews; an epithet applied to their rabbinical legends. (Titus 1:14)

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JEWRY

(the country of Judea), the same word elsewhere rendered Judah and Judea. It occurs several times in the Apocalypse and the New Testament, but once only in the Old Testament -- ...

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JEZANIAH

(whom Jehovah hears), the son of Hoshaiah the Maachathite, and one of the captains of the forces who had escaped from Jerusalem during the final attack of the beleaguering army ...

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JEZEBEL

(chaste), wife of Ahab king of Israel. (B.C. 883.) She was a Phoenician princess, daughter of Ethbaal king of the Zidonians. In her hands her husband became a mere puppet. (1 Ki...

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JEZER

(power), the third son of Naphtali, (Genesis 46:24; Numbers 26:49; 1 Chronicles 7:13) and father of the family of Jezerites.

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JEZIAH

(whom Jehovah expiates), a descendant of Parosh, who had married a foreign wife. (Ezra 10:25)

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JEZIEL

(the assembly of God), a Benjamite who joined David at Ziklag. (1 Chronicles 12:3) (B.C. 1055.)

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JEZLIAH

(whom God will preserve), a Benjamite of the sons of Elpaal. (1 Chronicles 8:18) (B.C. 588.)

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JEZOAR

(whiteness), the son of Helah, one of the wives of Asher. (1 Chronicles 4:7)

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JEZRAHIAH

(produced by Jehovah), a Levite, the leader of the choristers at the solemn dedication of the wall of Jerusalem under Nehemiah. (Nehemiah 12:42) (B.C. 446.)

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JEZREEL

A city situated in the plain of the same name between Gilboa and Little Hermon, now generally called Esdraelon. [ESDRAELON] It appears in (Joshua 19:18) but its historical impor...

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JEZREEL

(seed of God), a descendant of the father or founder of Etam, of the line of Judah. (1 Chronicles 4:3) (B.C. about 1445).

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JEZREELITESS

a woman of Jezreel. (1 Samuel 27:3; 30:5; 2 Samuel 2:2; 3:2; 1 Chronicles 3:1)

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JIBSAM

(pleasant), one of the sons of Tola, the son of Issachar. (1 Chronicles 7:2) (B.C. 1017.)

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JIDLAPH

(weeping), a son of Nahor. (Genesis 22:22)

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JIMNA

(prosperity), the first-born of Asher. (Numbers 26:44) He is elsewhere called in the Authorized Version JIMNAH, (Genesis 46:17) and IMNAH. (1 Chronicles 7:30)

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JIMNAH

= JIMNA = IMNAH. (Genesis 46:17)

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JIMNITES, THE

descendants of the preceding. (Numbers 26:44)

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JINAH

(lamentation), a city of Judah, on the extreme south boundary of the tribe, next to Edom. (Joshua 15:22)